In a series called Tested, session guitarist and songwriter, Jim Lills brings you along on his personal journey as he compares various components of the electric guitar & its many accessories aiming to determine what makes the biggest difference in sound.
While people’s feelings about their own gear and what it does can often affect the way they play psychologically, that doesn’t mean the gear is doing exactly what they think it's doing. Lill jokes about a friend—whose playing, for the record, Lill insists he loves and has learned a lot from—that uses asetting on a digital amplifier to get a sound that he calls “that John Mayer thing.
“It’s just funny,” he says. “It’s like saying ‘Oh man, I love Dale Earnhardt. That’s why I drive a Chevy, you know, just like Dale’s.’” Perhaps the thing that strikes me most about Lill is that, in a world of influencers actively growing their social media following, he doesn't aim to turn his videos into his full-time livelihood. Instead, he’s just a musician, sharing what he learns with those of us who don’t have the time and resources to do the same experiments.
When asked why he started making the videos to begin with, he says, “I have noticed that knowing the answer without having any proof doesn't always work the same as when you actually capture it on videos. So I try to make sure to capture stuff on video as much as I can.” They have a surprisingly great production value, for a man who admits that at the beginning he actually didn’t own a camera.
Instead, Lill gave me a gift for free—the knowledge that speaker cabinets and tone settings matter more than the hunk of wood and strings in my hand. This is valuable information, given the amount of time I've spent hunting for guitars and“I've seen a lot of different approaches to how people convey information on the internet, and the way that I've chosen to go is as unbiased and as kind as I can,” he says. “It doesn’t really matter whether someone believes me or not.
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